MATILDA

A Holistic, Innovative Framework for the Design, Development and Orchestration of 5G-ready Apps and Network Services over Sliced Programmable Infrastructure

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Project Description

The MATILDA project envisions to design and to develop a holistic framework that supports the tight interconnection among the development of 5G-ready applications, the creation of the on-demand required networking and computational infrastructure in the form of an application-aware network slice and the activation of the appropriate networking mechanisms for the support of the industry vertical applications.

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ROLE

In the frame of MATILDA project, NCSRD is going to undertake the leadership of the activities foreseen in “WP2 – 5G-Ready Applications and Network Services Development Environment and Market-place”, by leading the activities in the Task 2.2 “5G-Ready Application and Network-Aware Application Graph Composer”. Moreover, it is foreseen that NCSRD will contribute in WP8 and more specifically will lead the activities in the frame of the Task 8.4 “Advisory Board Establishment and Operation”, whereas it will be responsible for the establishment of the Advisory Board, as well as its efficient and effective operation throughout the project’s life-cycle.

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Holistic 5G end-to-end services operational framework

Tackling the overall lifecycle of design, development and orchestration of 5G applications and services

unified programmability model

with a set of control abstractions

Intelligent and unified orchestration mechanisms

to be applied for the automated placement of the 5G-ready applications

Network and application-oriented analytics and profiling mechanisms

based on real-time as well as a posteriori processing of the collected data from a set of monitoring streams

What is it about?

Project Description

MATILDA aims to devise and realize a radical shift in the development of software for 5G-ready applications, as well as virtual and physical network functions and network services, through the adoption of a unified programmability model, the definition of proper abstractions and the creation of an open development environment that may be used by application as well as network functions developers.

Intelligent and unified orchestration mechanisms are going to be applied for the automated placement of the 5G-ready applications and the creation and maintenance of the required network slices. Deployment and runtime policies enforcement is provided through a set of optimisation mechanisms providing deployment plans based on high level objectives and a set of mechanisms supporting runtime adaptation of the application components and/or network functions based on policies defined on behalf of a services provider.

Multi-site management of the cloud/edge computing and IoT resources is supported by a multi-site virtualized infrastructure manager, while the lifecycle management of the supported Virtual Network Functions Forwarding Graphs (VNF-FGs), as well as a set of network management activities, are provided by a multi-site NFV Orchestrator (NFVO).

Network and application-oriented analytics and profiling mechanisms are supported based on real-time as well as a posteriori processing of the collected data from a set of monitoring streams.

Inside the mechanics…

Technologies

Here are some of the technologies, platforms, systems, open-source projects, tools, pieces of software, frameworks… that are used :